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- [News](https://www.talksciencetome.com/news/) - Why Don’t Animals Have Wheels? by Alyssa Gonzalez September 1, 2023 As children, we learn about the various kinds of simple machines that underly most human constructions. Levers, pulleys and inclined planes all serve to help humans turn force in one direction into motion in another or otherwise make it easier to move objects. The
- [Why Don't Animals Have Wheels?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2023/09/01/why-dont-animals-have-wheels/) - As children, we learn about the various kinds of simple machines that underly most human constructions. Levers, pulleys and inclined planes all serve to help humans turn force in one direction into motion in another or otherwise make it easier to move objects. The six kinds of simple machines (levers, pulleys, wedges, inclined planes, screws
- [Why Do Whales Breathe Air?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2023/08/02/why-do-whales-breathe-air/) - It’s a fair question. Most multicellular life on Earth requires oxygen to sustain metabolism, and those organisms get it from the fluids around them. (Yes, even plants.) But while organisms that breathe water but live on land are few and far between, aquatic and semiaquatic air-breathers are abundant. Many frogs, salamanders, crocodilians, caiman lizards, sea
- [The Candiru: A Six-Inch SciCom Failure](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2023/03/20/the-candiru-a-six-inch-scicom-failure/) - This is one story that should never have been. Science communication is a careful interplay of priorities. Words and approaches must match the knowledge base of the audience, always bringing them to a better-informed place than where they were before, and align with the writer's goals. Scientific knowledge is our collective best estimate of the
- [Art and Science: What Is a Tattoo?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2023/07/21/art-and-science-what-is-a-tattoo/) - Few subjects have their relationships portrayed as wrongly as science and art. Popular culture presents art and science as natural opposites, one the domain of emotion and the other of hard math, with nothing to say to each other. We here at Talk Science to Me disagree completely. Art and science are the most natural
- [Treasures: Stellar Nucleosynthesis](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/01/treasures-stellar-nucleosynthesis/) - Most of the things in our "Treasures" series are living organisms. I think this is partly because lots of living organisms are easy to identify with: they exist on a scale similar to ours and are easy to categorize as discrete entities. Phenomena are a little harder to sell, for the most part. Stellar nucleosynthesis has
- [Treasures: Natural nuclear reactors](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/19/treasures-natural-nuclear-reactors/) - I don’t know how other people are taught, but for a long time I thought that nuclear reactors generated energy through some borderline-mystical atomic process that I could never really comprehend. And that’s partly true. But if you skip the details of how fission actually works, its role in a power plant is actually pretty
- [Bullet Chess Affects Your Brain. So Does Everything Else.](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2021/10/20/bullet-chess-affects-your-brain-so-does-everything-else/) - Fancy a game of chess? It’ll only take a minute. Bullet chess is a variant of the classic game where each player is given 3 minutes or less total to play all of their moves. Languid, nuanced tactics are often foregone in favor of rapid, instinctive movements that can outrun your opponent’s calculation. Failing that,
- [Tantrik Studies](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2019/03/09/tantrik-studies-2/) - There's something to be said about reading a text in its original language, to glean the intimate context of the author and the audience they intended to reach. That's why when long-time client Christopher Wallis, author of Tantra Illuminated and The Recognition Sutras, asked us to design him a website where he could blog in
- [Death of the stethoscope?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/27/death-of-the-stethoscope-2/) - It’s not just zombies that rise from the dead—science news stories can also come back to haunt the reader. Take “Death of the stethoscope,” which surfaced in my RSS feed in the middle of 2015. As a former stethoscope user, the clickbait headline immediately intrigued me. No stethoscope? How would clinicians survive? Historical First off:
- [Around town: Operation Med School](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/15/around-town-operation-med-school-2/) - This one’s for you if you have a high school student around the house who is thinking that med school could be a good option for post-secondary. A group of enterprising Grade 11 and 12 students is putting on a one-day pre-medical conference for high school peers. Run as an annual event, Operation Med School
- [In case you were wondering: HeroRATs](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/10/case-wondering-herorats/) - We first squealed with delight over the APOPO HeroRATs in a cool science gifts post waaaaaay back in November 2014. Always on the lookout for science treasures, we couldn’t help but introduce the amazing impact the rats’ olfactory abilities were making in mine detection and tuberculosis screening in Africa. Oh, and the cute! Valentine’s Day
- [Client showcase: Shelly DeForte, biomathematician](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/12/09/client-showcase-shelly-deforte-biomathematician/) - As a full-service science communications agency staffed with editors, designers, writers and more, Talk Science to Me takes great pride in supporting all our clients by presenting their science in effective and engaging ways. Although most of our portfolio comprises larger organizations and institutions, we also work with individual authors and researchers to manage their
- [Up, up and away: The coolness of vanishing helium](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/12/18/away-coolness-vanishing-helium/) - Helium. The supercool supercoolant—the gas that keeps party balloons aloft, carries entire houses all the way to Paradise Falls and turns humans briefly into chipmunks—is vanishing. Leaking out of colourful balloons, helium molecules rise up through the atmosphere and disappear into space. Although it’s one of the most abundant elements in the visible universe, it’s rare
- [In case you were wondering, part II](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/11/24/case-wondering-part-ii/) - What’s the helium situation? …and other updates on stories we covered last year. Helium Although we’re still not comfortable with the frivolous use of helium gas in party balloons, a recent discovery certainly gives MRI fans, astronauts and the boffins at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, reason to celebrate. At the end of
- [Around town: All creatures, great and small](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/11/02/around-town-creatures-great-small/) - This weekend will see a gathering of the province’s veterinarians and staff in downtown Vancouver for the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the Society of British Columbia Veterinarians (SBCV) Chapter Fall Conference and Trade Show. The program seems predominantly small animal–oriented, but in reality, vets across BC handle all sizes of patient, quadruped and biped,
- [Boo! Zombies are real!](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/10/31/boo-zombies-real/) - With Halloween just around the corner, how about a little creepy science for the season? Zombies are real. Yes, you read that one right. The undead do exist, and not just in fiction…but maybe I should clarify before you dive right back behind the sofa. Relax; it’s not a whole-body reanimated dead-to-alive apocalypse, just a
- [Paving the way for Ada: Mary Fairfax Somerville](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/10/11/paving-way-ada-mary-fairfax-somerville/) - We’ve covered Ada Lovelace Day on the Talk Science blog for the last couple of years. By now, dear reader, you should know all about the “Enchantress of Numbers,” as Charles Babbage referred to her, and why her achievements are so remarkable even today. But who came before her—who paved the way? And this is
- [#goodbyephilae #goodbyerosetta](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/09/29/goodbyephilae-goodbyerosetta/) - Talk Science To Me staff are a bunch of hard-nosed, emotionless science communicators who check their feelings at the door each day to report the cold, hard facts… Okay, strike that — as you know from previous blog posts, we’re passionate about science and unafraid of wearing our hearts on our sleeves. When little Philae
- [Content notes and trigger warnings: A primer for editors](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/08/29/trigger-warnings-and-content-notes-a-primer-for-editors/) - I recently copy-edited a book called Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain, published by our subsidiary, Thorntree Press. The book covers a wide range of topics relevant to bisexual people and allies in the UK and other English-speaking countries. I learned a lot from editing this book, as I always do, but one thing I had
- [Don’t forget to pack the chicken](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/08/09/dont-forget-pack-chicken/) - Off on vacation? Here’s something topical I plucked from my science feeds for you. Apparently, adding a chicken to the packing list might be a wise idea this summer, especially if you’re traveling in malaria-prone areas. Researchers with the University of Addis Ababa and the Swedish University of Agriculture have found that chicken body odours
- [Around town: 16th International Conference of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/07/19/around-town-16th-international-conference-biochemistry-molecular-biology/) - This week, Vancouver is hosting the 16th International Conference of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Jointly organized by three associations—the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences and the Pan-American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology—conference attendees will attend sessions over five days. These include two plenaries delivered by Nobel Prize winners,
- [Einstein, or it’s okay to say “what?”](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/06/30/einstein-okay-say/) - June 30 marks the anniversary of publication for physicist Albert Einstein’s first paper on special relativity. On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (1905) sets out Einstein’s theory on the relationship between space and time, establishing relativity for time and distance, and the absolute nature of the speed of light. As one of his four annus
- [In case you were wondering…](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/06/17/in-case-you-were-wondering/) - Leaving clients hanging in mid-air in their dealings with Talk Science to Me is not our style: every i is dotted, projects are delivered within deadline and we fully communicate project progress with every milestone. Professionals to the core. This also extends to you, dear reader, on the blog. We hope our posts leave you informed, engaged and wanting
- [Around town: Shatner and early grammar woes](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/05/27/around-town-shatner-early-grammar-woes/) - (Or why you should hire an editor.) Local institution the University of British Columbia (UBC) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this school year. This weekend, as part of its centenary celebrations, UBC is running a daylong event: UBC100: What’s Next? A day of exploring the future, a series of talks on upcoming issues in science, community and technology.
- [Halley’s comet, impending doom and communicating science](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/05/17/halleys-comet-impending-doom-communicating-science/) - On May 18, 1910, Halley’s comet made its closest recorded contact (0.15 astronomical units,* or approximately 23 million kilometres) with our planet, and the Earth passed through its tail. The event was full of scientific excitement and wonder, since photographic plates and spectroscopy were newly available to researchers. With these new tools, astronomers and the public
- [Around town, a.k.a. back to school](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/05/13/around-town-avoiding-clickbait/) - One of the reasons for highlighting upcoming science conferences in Vancouver in my Around Town series is that it gives me a push to find out more on a subject I may have little exposure to. It's also a great inspiration for a regular series of blog posts! Last month, press releases ahead of one of
- [Bench to blog: Part 2](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/05/06/bench-to-blog-part-2/) - At Talk Science to Me, we receive requests throughout the year from people who are right at the beginning of a career shift from science to science writing. Although we don’t have entry-level positions available, we do have experience in making The Switch. In this two-part series (see part 1 here), Amanda, our science writer,
- [Bench to blog: Part 1](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/04/29/p3152/) - At Talk Science to Me, we often receive requests from people who are right at the beginning of a career shift from science to science writing. Although we don’t have entry-level positions available, we do have experience in making The Switch. In this two-part series, Amanda, our science writer, gives some insight into why and
- [Ripples, no doubt](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/02/22/ripples-no-doubt/) - While I have no difficulty understanding our previous blog post on ripples, I must confess to being a little adrift over the gravity surrounding the recent news. Although I’m totally caught up in the infectious scientific excitement of the whole announcement on detecting gravitational waves, it’s not something I could explain the importance of to the
- [Tidying up the edges](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/01/07/tidying-up-the-edges/) - Amidst the excitement of the usual first-baby announcements and the seemingly impossible stories of twins born in different years that herald the start of another new year, you may have missed this snippet: the global science family also welcomed some new additions. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 are now officially recognized by the Powers That
- [A new era for thalidomide?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/12/11/new-era-thalidomide/) - I'd like to stretch the coincidence theme once more on the blog, so bear with me as I wander through some random but connected happenings from my own world of science communications. Thalidomide. What do you think of when you hear the name of this drug? What images come to mind? If you’re a certain age,
- [Predatory publishing: Open access on the prowl?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/12/08/predatory-publishing-open-access-prowl/) - If you follow science communications in general out there on the Web, you’ll have noticed last month’s Open Access (OA) Week, when the academic and research publishing world celebrates making knowledge available for all. Maybe you’ve wondered what OA is all about, and what makes it different from traditional research publishing. You may also have
- [Around town: Where's the Patient's Voice ...?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/11/23/around-town-2nd-international-conference-wheres-patients-voice-health-professional-education-10-years/) - Most of the conferences covered in the Around Town series are annual or occasionally biennial events, hosting professionals for continuing education to update their skills, knowledge base and networking in the subject of their passion. The Patient’s Voice conference, held November 12–14, 2015 in Vancouver, was different: this was an evaluation of progress made since
- [Celebrating Frances Oldham Kelsey for Ada Lovelace Day](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/10/13/celebrating-frances-oldham-kelsey-ada-lovelace-day/) - Every year, Ada Lovelace Day rolls around, reminding the world that yes, we do need to reach out in support of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). To defend this assertion, this year I’m only putting forward two pieces of evidence: #timhunt and #shirtgate, both of which happened in the year since the last Ada Lovelace
- [Around town: Human Proteome Organization World Congress 2015](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/09/29/around-town-human-proteome-organization-world-congress-2015/) - For a former protein scientist, the arrival of the HUPO World Congress in Vancouver is a Big Deal. First, one of my ongoing Talk Science to Me projects is a subcontract writing primary research reviews for a proteomics blog. Second, I am a proteins #fangirl. Whenever I think about proteins, Tigger’s song floats around my
- [E-book design illuminated: Part 1](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/30/e-book-design-illuminated-part-1/) - The world of e-book publishing today is a bit reminiscent of the World Wide Web of the mid-90s: the possibilities are fascinating, and there’s tremendous promise for new ways of communicating, but the roads there are still unpaved and littered with occasional potholes. I recently had the opportunity to create an e-book of Christopher Wallis’s Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy,
- [Editing academia: Working with students](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/20/editing-academia-working-with-students/) - I loved academic writing when I was a student, and now I get really excited when I get to work with students as an editor. In the past few months, Talk Science has done formatting, copy-editing and writing coaching for graduate students in sociology, political science and education. The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) has guidelines for
- [Around town: The 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015)](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/13/around-town-8th-ias-conference-hiv-pathogenesis-treatment-prevention-ias-2015/) - Vancouver Convention Centre, July 19–22, 2015
- [Enchantment and wonderland: 4D LABS](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/09/enchantment-wonderland-4d-labs/) - Scientists aren’t as uptight or as mad as the stereotypical personalities shown in popular media. No, they buy burgers for the BBQ, drop off dry cleaning and use public transit—just like everybody else. I know for a fact that some even go “squee!”…but not so much over kittens (okay, maybe about kittens too). So, how
- [Blogging…with Sanskrit](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/02/blogging-with-sanskrit/) - If you're a writer, one of the best ways to engage your readers is to post regularly on a personal blog. The sandbox is your own: you can reach out to your audience with regularly posted content, and the comments open up further dialogue. Often it’s a more dynamic endeavour than a static website or a book.
- [Work tips from the Talk Science to Me Team](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/05/13/working-tips-talk-science-team/) - Deb starts the day by checking her schedule on her smart phone while running up 1,000 stairs, stopping to stretch after every 100. Roma prefers the slightly more sedentary approach of looking over her diary while drinking a cup of strong coffee. Not sure if this works, but Amanda suggests watching the strangely hypnotic Dancing Jellies video to get into work
- [Resolutions for writers, and why](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/05/11/resolutions-writers/) - Apart from sticking to deadlines for timely submission, what other useful habits could/should writers adopt to help workflow? Here are some habits that could help keep the words coming, and why they might help. Inbox zero and muting the ping! File this one under “removing distractions.” How many times an hour does that ping of
- [Around town: 24th Annual John K. Friesen Conference—Harnessing Technology for Aging-in-Place](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/05/07/around-town-24th-annual-john-k-friesen-conference-harnessing-technology-aging-place/) - May 14–15 at the Segal Centre, SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC Preliminary program [pdf] Resources for further reading (open access) Gitlin, Laura N. 2003. "Conducting Research on Home Environments: Lessons Learned and New Directions." The Gerontologist 43 (5): 628–637. Graybill, Erin M., Peter McMeekin, and John Wildman. 2014. "Can Aging in Place
- [Working with translations: Version control](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/05/06/complete-version-controlcontrole-de-versioncontrol-de-versiones/) - The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) recently published Trade and Green Economy: A handbook, the third edition of a handbook that examines the relationship between trade and the environment. The third edition focuses specifically on the green economy, which UNEP defines as an economy "that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks
- [Cool science memories from the team](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/05/04/cool-science-memories-team/) - Enough about you—what about us? It would be correct to say that here at Talk Science to Me, we pretty much eat, sleep and breathe science. In fact, that’s how our mastermind, Eve Rickert, explained her journey into #scicomm for a class of health science writers at Kwantlen Polytechnic University we were invited to speak
- [Around town: 6th Networking World Anesthesia Conference](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/04/24/around-town-6th-networking-world-anesthesia-conference/) - The Networking World Anesthesia Convention (NWAC) takes place next week in Vancouver, BC, bringing together clinicians and researchers working in this vital medical field. It is worth remembering that without adequate anesthesia, modern medicine and surgery would be stuck in the quick and dirty field of “getting it over with fast”: read Fanny Burney’s account of
- [Delayed valentine: Worth waiting for?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/03/09/delayed-valentine-worth-waiting/) - Sometimes, the best valentines are those that arrive late, long after the roses have withered and the chocolates have been consumed. At around the same time that I started high school, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off on its journey to the outer planets. Thirteen years later and nearing the end of its planned primary
- [Understanding water use in BC](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/03/06/understanding-water-use-in-bc/) - I recently found out that over 95% of the electricity produced by BC Hydro comes from hydroelectric sources, which floored me. I grew up in Alberta, where the majority of power comes from coal and natural gas, so my concept of electricity sources doesn't include water, except for as a possible "alternative" energy source. But there's nothing
- [Around town: The 6th International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/03/03/around-town-6th-international-conference-fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder/) - Conferences are great places to hang out if you're a scientist. The buzz of knowledge fills the air, and it’s often the only chance you get to brainstorm with like-minded enthusiasts in your field. By the end of the conference, you are high on knowledge transfer and giddy with sharing the science…and exhausted. But then
- [Crowdfunding science: Why donate, part II](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/02/15/crowdfunding-science-donate-part-ii/) - Why support crowdfunding for science research? We were curious about this question, and we decided to take the opportunity presented by the annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science and the first conference of the newly formed Citizen Science Association, which both took place in San Jose last week and this weekend.
- [Crowdfunding science – Why donate?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/02/12/crowdfunding-science-donate/) - If you work in science research at almost any level these days, you’ll be aware of how difficult it is to get funded to carry out or continue with a project. Whether you are a doctoral student working on a cherished thesis or an “established” academic, you know that the monies available are slipping behind
- [Advocacy, please](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/02/06/advocacy-please/) - I think plain language is awesome. I’m glad the movement is gaining momentum and that there are enthusiastic advocates out there trying to make plain language the default. And I’m excited to be learning more about how to improve my own plain language skills. But I’m not so excited about the current of language shaming that
- [Exquisite Love: From ancient text to e-book](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/01/06/exquisite-love-ancient-text-e-book/) - In 2014, Talk Science proofread, indexed and designed the second edition of Exquisite Love: Reflections on the spiritual life based on Nārada’s Bhakti Sūtra by William K. Mahony. The Bhakti Sūtra is a set of 84 statements on the nature of divine love. It was written, in Sanskrit, sometime in the tenth or eleventh century.
- [English, science, and the editor as advocate](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/12/22/book-review-science-need-global-language/) - At a recent meeting of the BC branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada, a panel discussed the role of editors in ensuring accessibility to information. One of the final questions asked was, “Are editors advocates?” I think that yes, we absolutely are. But here’s another question: What are we advocates for? There are some
- [Image hunting: Tips for sourcing historical images](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/11/28/sourcing-historical-images/) - At Talk Science to Me, we spend a lot of time sourcing images, both for our own use on our blog and website, and for our clients. The right image can be invaluable to a document, either by helping to break up long blocks of text or by giving the reader extra information about what
- [The benefit of accident and coincidence in radioactivity](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/11/07/benefit-accident-coincidence-radioactivity/) - coincidence = [noun] a chance occurrence of events remarkable either for being simultaneous or for apparently being connected. Synonyms: accident, luck, fate During a non-accidental* wander through the Pacific Science Center’s online calendar of scientific events, I noticed one of those divine coincidences that is probably only exciting to me and maybe a few other calendar/science
- [Muses: Parasite of the Day](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/10/29/muses-parasite-day/) - If you’ve read other blog posts here or followed us on Twitter, you’ve likely noticed that we kind of like parasites. A lot. And whether or not you can muster up the same fascination, it’s kind of hard to argue against their importance; roughly 40% of species on earth are parasitic, and as many as 75%
- [Be careful what you read---Ebola](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/10/17/wip-ebola-virus-post/) - I don’t often share quotes as a tweet or Facebook status, preferring to give real-time life updates, share interesting articles I’ve read about social media marketing or science, and of course post pictures of cats---but once in a while, a quote makes sense. Time and place, people---time and place. The quote “Think before you speak. Read
- [Ada who?---Why doing science like a girl is worth shouting about](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/10/14/ada-science-like-girl-worth-shouting/) - If you have a feed reader harvesting RSS feeds for your consumption, or are active in social media, you might have seen an increase in women-in-science-based activity around the middle of October each year. You may even have seen the name Ada Lovelace mentioned. Since its launch in 2009, the science communication world spends a
- [International Plain Language Day](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/10/10/international-plain-language-day/) - October 13th is International Plain Language Day (IPLDay), a celebration of clear communication and the plain language movement. In Vancouver, we celebrated IPLDay a week early at Communication Convergence, a conference that brought together communicators from different fields for an afternoon of discussion. I'm fairly new to the concept of plain language, and throughout the afternoon I began to reflect
- [Design style guides: Why you need one and how to make one](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/09/12/design-style-guides-need-one-make-one/) - Whether you’re in the initial stages of building your brand or you’re well established and undertaking an overhaul, a design style guide is well worth considering. Although it’s a non-trivial outlay in terms of both time and money, the headaches and expenses a design style guide can save you later on (starting pretty soon, actually)
- [Typesetting matters](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/15/typesetting-matters/) - Typesetting and layout aren’t just important to how a document looks. They can also be vital to how easy it is to read. Content creators now have many options for handling these things themselves—everything from default themes in MS Word and Pages all the way up to TeX if you’re in a scientific field. But
- [Peeking in the designer's toolbox](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/08/peeking-designers-toolbox/) - I am amazed by what our designers can do. I copy-edit a document and send it to Talk Science to Me designers Mari Chijiiwa or Jeff Werner as a Word file, just blocks of black and white text for pages on end. Then they work their alchemical magic and return it as a beautiful PDF file, with colours,
- [Muses: David Ng](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/07/25/muses-david-ng/) - Dr. David Ng is definitely our kind of person. In addition to being smart as a scientist, he’s an excellent and inventive communicator with a great instinct for creating hooks. He’s also very skilled at devising relatable premises that are truly capable of carrying a scientific discussion. I wrote a lot about this in my
- [Coordinating cooks: Working with live designs](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/05/coordinating-cooks-working-live-designs/) - The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review is a massive report, created every four years, by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, one of Talk Science to Me's oldest clients. We were asked to copy-edit, design and proofread this epic masterpiece, weighing in at 365 pages. The design portion of the project, with its more than 400 figures, tables
- [Client showcase: UBC Chemistry grant proposals](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/07/16/client-showcase-ubc-chemistry-grant-proposals/) - The University of British Columbia (UBC)’s Department of Chemistry is housed in one of the most beautiful buildings on campus (which you may have seen in one or two X-Files episodes). But even more beautiful is what goes on inside the building: it's home to world-class researchers whose work has contributed to groundbreaking discoveries and
- [Adventures in Ottawa](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/05/02/adventures-in-ottawa/) - One of the great things about the way Talk Science to Me does business is that we use the best people we can find, no matter where we find them. While most of our associates live in Vancouver, we've gone as far as the Yukon and Minnesota to find talent that meets our clients' needs.
- [Client showcase: Perfection in all things nuclear and editing](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/07/04/perfection-in-all-things-nuclear-and-editing/) - It seems like only last year that a small core of associates at Talk Science to Me experienced our Adventures in Ottawa (see entertaining blog by Talk Science mastermind, Eve Rickert). Oh, wait. It was only a year ago. Having edited literally thousands of their pages since our seminal meeting with the Canadian Nuclear Safety
- [Do you accept the quest? - Reading and understanding a science paper](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/06/29/reading-and-understanding-a-science-paper/) - Open access publishers like Public Library of Science, PLOS ONE and eLife are a ready source of peer-reviewed primary research papers. Other publishers may also make papers available online without requiring subscription or erecting a paywall. Your library subscription (academic or public) often gives access to papers for free if you don’t want to purchase access. Googling
- [Caveat lector or reader beware!](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/06/19/caveat-lector-or-reader-beware/) - Repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation In April, the Journal of Neuroscience published the paper that apparently everybody had been waiting for—definitive proof that even recreational cannabis use messes with your head. As soon as the publication embargo lifted, the headlines screamed into action, suggesting the danger to developing brains from just a
- [Copyright: Quotes](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/06/11/copyright-quotes/) - My alma mater’s policy on quotation is (loosely paraphrased): “Please for the love of all that is good and pure in the universe, properly attribute all words from external sources so that we don’t need to award you a special mega-F and chisel your academic malfeasance into your headstone.” Point being, at least in my
- [Forget zombie nouns--watch out for vampire verbs](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/01/24/forget-zombie-nouns-watch-out-for-vampire-verbs/) - I don’t often leave a six-hour seminar with more energy than when I came in, but if it’s six hours of language stuff, I’m pumped. This past Saturday the BC branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada hosted a workshop called Eight Step Editing, delivered by veteran editor and writer Jim Taylor, who developed the
- [$1,000 genome is here (at last)](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/01/23/1000-genome-is-here-at-last/) - Last week, San Diego life sciences equipment developer, Illumina, announced the arrival of the $1,000 genome. According to their stats, running an entire human genome through one of their fast process HiSeqX 10 sequencing machines could spit out the US$1,000 result in a day. Although commercial companies already offer personal partial genome analysis for a
- [NASA launches MAVEN, there is much rejoicing](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/11/19/nasa-launches-maven-there-is-much-rejoicing/) - We’re talking about water on Mars! Again! I think even hardcore Mars nuts might be getting tired of this, which is kind of a shame because it is really interesting. With varying caveats, we’ve known for a long time that Mars had water. More recently we got confirmation that it still does. But a lot
- [Insect cogs and jumping bugs](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/09/17/insect-cogs-and-jumping-bugs/) - If you were around during the late seventies or early eighties, you grew up knowing that insects will inherit the Earth after the nuclear apocalypse. However, apart from mad survival skills, did you know that they also beat us at engineering? Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England have found that the jumping bugs Issus
- [Evaluating a news source](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/07/19/evaluating-a-news-source/) - Most people seem to want news they can trust, and most people I know think that’s quite hard to find. There are many, many reasons for this, but I’m going to try (notwithstanding the 8,000-word first draft of this piece) to only talk about the ones that are most helpful if you’re trying to decide
- [A smartphone-based mobile lab?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/07/09/a-smartphone-based-mobile-lab/) - Engineers at Cornell University presented work on smartphone-based medicine at CLEO: 2013 last month, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Their creation is an external device that connects to a smartphone and can be used to diagnose Kaposi’s sarcoma and a slew of other serious conditions. Based on the press release, the smartphone itself isn’t doing
- [The death of the death of megafauna](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/05/23/the-death-of-the-death-of-megafauna/) - Being a fan of science fact is a lot like being a fan of science fiction: every once in a while, a team of writers decides to obliterate your personal canon, seemingly because they hate you and want you to suffer. Actually that’s mostly just Steven Moffat; in the case of scientists it’s usually because
- [Making the myth of patient zero](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/26/making-the-myth-of-patient-zero/) - Don Sapatkin has a really interesting piece up at philly.com right now. It chronicles the origin of the “patient zero” narrative. If you’re not familiar, the story is that all known cases of HIV in the United States can be traced back to a single, unusually promiscuous individual, a flight attendant from Canada named Gaetan
- [The Finkbeiner test](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/25/the-finkbeiner-test/) - Christie Aschwanden has an excellent piece up at XX Science, with a simple experiment you can do at home to identify sexism in science journalism! As a long-time fan of the Bechdel Test, I’m easily convinced that science journalism warrants a similar instrument. Finkbeiner’s test is interesting because, unlike the Bechdel Test (which primarily reveals
- [Stand back, I'm about to do editing](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/15/stand-back-im-about-to-do-editing/) - I recently received a letter from the Editors Association of Canada informing me that I’ve passed the last of my exams and successfully earned the right to put the letters CPE after my name: I’m a certified professional editor. The copy itself was very clean, so I sent it back to them with only a
- [Client showcase: Climate risk management](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/23/client-showcase-climate-risk-management/) - One of our frequent flyers at Talk Science to Me is the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). IISD is constantly publishing papers about sustainability issues, from just about every sector and every part of the world. They have a massive archive of previous work, which you can browse at your leisure with no paywall.
- [Jumping spiders: Communication and miniaturization](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/03/07/jumping-spiders-communication-and-miniaturization/) - This should be evident from the title, but in case it's not: If the combination of the words “jumping” and “spider” disturbs you, this is not the post for you. But if spiders only make you a little uncomfortable, I suggest sticking this one out, because from the perspective of animal behaviour and physiology, these
- [The uBiome controversy](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/03/14/the-ubiome-controversy/) - uBiome is a cool project serving a widely recognized need: the mapping of the human microbiome. We’ve posted about uBiome on Twitter and Facebook, and have generally been pretty jazzed about the enterprise. Our enthusiasm took a major hit, however, when Melissa Bates and other bloggers began to voice serious concerns about the ethical oversight
- [Science [REDACTED]](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/03/21/science-redacted/) - As of this moment, across Canada, there are government appointees who have veto power over new scientific data. This sounds like an exaggeration, but it isn’t. An adjustment to intellectual property law has made it possible for Canadian officials to block new studies from being published. They have stated no intent to use their new
- [Treasures: The snapping shrimp](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/10/treasures-the-snapping-shrimp/) - The first thing I need to tell you about the snapping shrimp is that I did not make it up. This is science. Really. The “snapping” part of this crustacean’s name refers to the action of a special arm it has—just the one. The limb is massively muscular compared with the rest of the body,
- [In science, small choices => big shifts](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2012/08/09/in-science-small-choices-big-shifts/) - Mark Neff is a scientist who studies scientists, and he says #ESA2012 is his field season. He presented this morning in a session called “Translational Ecology: Forging Effective Links Between Knowledge and Action.” Neff, an assistant professor at Allegheny College, wants to understand how scientists make the choices to study what they study. This may seem
- [Treasures: The tongue-eating sea louse](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/05/treasures-the-tongue-eating-sea-louse/) - One of the things I love about science is the appreciation it can inspire for things I might otherwise consider horrifying, or just gross. One great example of this is Cymothoa exigua, also known as the tongue-eating sea louse. I should mention that the animal in question doesn’t necessarily "eat" the host’s tongue in the
- [This just in: Twitter users like cats (#MyParasite poll)](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/07/this-just-in-twitter-users-like-cats-myparasite-poll/) - A couple of days ago we posted the first of a series we’re going to call “treasures”: stories about random things in science that we think are beautiful, surprising, amazing or just plain cool. They’re going to be paired with the little circular image icons on our homepage, which we’ll begin rotating, so over time
- [Image permission: Doing it right](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/15/image-permission-doing-it-right/) - Whether you’re putting together a permanent exhibit or a last-minute powerpoint, it’s all but inevitable that you’ll encounter a point at which the most sensible option is to use material that someone else created. This is more frequently the case with images since they’re usually harder to recreate yourself. And in the age of Google Images and instant screenshots, there’s almost nothing in practical terms that can stop you from using any picture you want. Here at Talk Science however, we recommend being careful with your media usage— and we negotiate image permission for many of our clients. There are some misconceptions about this. Some people seem to think that the fact that an image has been posted online, or even published at all, makes it fair game. Or that simple attribution (like citing a published text) is sufficient, with no need to consult the originator. Or that all images are freely available for non-commercial use. None of these is the case—the last is true of specific Creative Commons licenses, but not all. And while we’re at it, you don’t need to mail yourself anything in order to secure rights to work that you’ve created.
- [The Chelyabinsk event](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/20/the-chelyabinsk-event/) - My friends and I all have vivid mental pictures of the Tunguska Event, probably because of Carl Sagan’s retelling of it in the original Cosmos series. Recently, another region of Russia—the Urals—was jolted awake by a similar, though smaller, event. This one caused more casualties than any other strike on record. Reports are that close
- [Tea to fight malaria? Yes, but also no.](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/12/tea-to-fight-malaria-yes-but-also-no/) - Brendan Borell has written a scathing attack on the WHO, published in Slate last week. Because of the basics of the story, I thought I knew what I was in for: someone is advocating the use of a cheap “natural” remedy instead of a well-understood synthetic drug. They’re anecdotally reporting extreme efficacy and no drawbacks.
- [Muses: DIY spectroscopy](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/03/08/muses-diy-spectroscopy/) - The Public Lab is, I think, a generally stellar example of how to go about citizen science: they identify genuine, pressing scientific needs that are underserved by existing institutions, develop effective and practical ways of addressing them, and then deftly articulate both to the public. Those steps are difficult enough to get right individually, let
- [The chimaera with the wheel of teeth](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/03/01/the-chimaera-with-the-wheel-of-teeth/) - This is a majorly cool piece by Becky Crew on the Scientific American blog network. It details the slow, incremental progress toward a scientific consensus on a truly weird anatomical feature exhibited by some prehistoric chimaeras (fish that share a relatively recent common ancestor with the modern shark). It’s a great scientific problem. “We’ve discovered what
- [Science, the gender gap, and how to make it worse](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/02/07/science-the-gender-gap-and-how-to-make-it-worse/) - Of late, some people have really hit it out of the park when it comes to articulating the obstacles women face in science. In what seems to be an effort to restore symmetry to the universe, the Guardian’s Emma G. Keller recently did her best to hit it right back in. The piece is a
- [What Gender Is a Coconut?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2023/03/27/what-gender-is-a-coconut/) - Sometimes seemingly nonsense questions have interesting answers. Few plants are as emblematic of the tropics as the coconut palm, Cocos nucifera. This tree can be found on just about every postcard depicting a tropical beach, anywhere in the world, and for good reason. Coconuts are improbably suited to human cultivation in places where few other
- [Fear of Brave New Worlds, or Uninspired Headline Writing?](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/21/fear-of-brave-new-worlds-or-uninspired-headline-writing/) - Summer 2016 marked the 85th anniversary of novelist Aldous Huxley completing his manuscript for Brave New World. The widely read novel, a dystopia of happiness-led oppression (in contrast to the fear-controlled populace in Orwell’s 1984), anticipates global adoption of advances in science and technology such as subliminal learning and reproductive medicine. Published in 1932, the book is still a
- [Reflecting Self](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/03/07/reflecting-self/) - Rosetta’s self-portrait at Mars. By European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Selfies. Definitely notorious in the digital world. Who hasn’t wrinkled up their nose in disgust at a friend’s shameless self-promotion or puckered up a duck face for the camera? Or maybe selfies power your voyage of exploration for personal acceptance, understanding and
- [2017 Cool Science Gift Guide](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/26/2017-cool-science-gift-guide/) - If it nerds, gift it! At last! Our seasonal round up of online gifting opportunities that will tickle the corners of your nearest and dearest science nerd’s heart. Although there’s a plethora of tacky science stuff out there—hanging a caffeine molecule on a pendant chain is so last year, and not at all scientific IMHO—I’ve
- [Tantrik Studies](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/26/tantrik-studies/) - There’s something to be said about reading a text in its original language, to glean the intimate context of the author and the audience they intended to reach. That’s why when long-time client Christopher Wallis, author of Tantra Illuminated and The Recognition Sutras, asked us to design him a website where he could blog in
- [So, Your Social Media Presence Is Being Overrun With Covid Denialism](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2021/06/07/so-your-social-media-presence-is-being-overrun-with-covid-denialism/) - Image: NIH Stop me if you’ve heard this one: over the last 15 months, your social media presence has become overrun with “COVID denialists,” anti-vaxxers, and other outspoken skeptics of accepted science. They co-opt your comment threads to spread conspiracy theories and harass people who support vaccines, wear masks, and believe SARS-CoV-2 exists. Maybe you
- [The Precision You Mean: Trans-inclusive Language In Science And Medicine](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2021/10/21/the-precision-you-mean-trans-inclusive-language-in-science-and-medicine/) - As science communicators invested in the ability of science to achieve a better, more informed, less ignorant world, we aim to balance the need for specific scientific language and the desire to make science accessible to a broader audience. Scientific terms exist because scientists, engineers and other specialists need language to efficiently describe complex and
- [Gaslighting Isn’t Just Psychological Abuse, It’s A Sociological Phenomenon](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2021/10/28/gaslighting-isnt-just-psychological-abuse-its-a-sociological-phenomenon/) - Ingrid Berman and Angela Lansbury in 1944’s Gaslight In 1944, Ingrid Bergman starred in a film directed by George Cukor about an opera singer who inadvertently marries her aunt’s murderer. You might’ve never heard of this movie, or the 1940 British film (and 1938 play) it’s based on. Nonetheless, it’s almost certainly influenced conversations you’ve
- [We Won't Do Your Homework But We Will Tell You About The Martian Lichens](https://www.talksciencetome.com/2021/11/24/we-wont-do-your-homework-but-we-will-tell-you-about-the-martian-lichens/) - We at Talk Science to Me receive a fair bit of email through our contact page, most of it inquiring about our services and often leading to fruitful client-provider relationships. Every now and then, though, someone tries to get us to talk science to them a little less honestly. Today, we endeavour to provide an answer.

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